US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 29 for "Photoelectric conversion element and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,446, issued on July 29, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Photoelectric conversion element and imaging device" was invented by Yoshiyuki Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuta Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Enoki (Kanagawa, Japan), Iwao Yagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Saito (Tokyo) and Masami Senoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion element 10A according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode 21; a second electrode 23 that is disposed to be opposed to the first electrode 21; and a photoelectric conversio...